AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underhill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



Sei)l<inlMr, 1915. Vol. 21 



CONTENTS 



No. 261 



Cover Picture — Longleaf Pine Tree. 



The Longleaf Pine — Identification and Characteristics 895 



With twn iUustrations. 



Commercial Uses of Longleaf Pine — By P. L. Butlrick 



With sixteen ilkistrations. 



S96 



Forests in the War Zone 909 



Witli two illustrations. 



The Bird Department— By A. A. Allen, Ph.D 911 



With t\V(i illustrations. 



At the Panama-Pacific Exposition 91.i 



Aviator to Detect Forest Fires 914 



With twc I ilhistratmns. 



Texas' State Forester 915 



915 



91() 



Japan's Forest Lands 



The Ornamental Evergreens — By Warren H. Miller 



With seven illustrations. 

 American Trees in German Forests — By J. S. Illick 



With seven illustrations. 

 National Forests Take in $2,500,000 



922 

 927 



Chugach Forest Reduced 927 



The Problem of Forest Conservation— By W. B. Greeley 92& 



With one portrait. 



Tree Planting along the Lincoln Highway — Bv Grace Roper 



Xcvitt ' 928 



Protecting Redwoods 929 



Indiana'a Forestry Home — By Burr X. Prentice 930 

 With one illustration. 



Ornamental and Shade Trees — Tree Pruning — By J. J. Levison 931 

 With three illustrations. 



Children's Department — How a Tree Grows — Bv Bristow 



Adams ' 935 



Wood Preserving Department — By E. A. Sterling 937 



Woodlot Values Worth Investigating 938 



The Lumber Industry Inquiry 939 



Editorial 941 



Canadian Department — By Elhvood Wilson 945 



Current Literature 946 



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